I done spent my last three cents
Mailing my letter to the President
Didn't make a show, I didn't make a dent

So I'm swinging over to this independent gent

Stetson Kennedy

Writing his name in
Stetson Kennedy
Writing his name in


I can't win out to save my soul
Long as Smathers-Dupont's got me in the hole

Them war profit boys are squawking and balking
That's what's got me out here walking and talking


Knocking on doors and windows
Wake up and run down election morning
And scribble in Stetson Kennedy

I ain't the world's best writer, ain't the world's best speller
But when I believe in something I'm the loudest yeller
If we fix it so you can't make no money on war

Well we'll all forget what we was killing folks for

We'll find us a peace job equal and free

We'll dump Smathers-Dupont in a salty sea
Well, this makes Stetson Kennedy the man for me